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Microsoft postpones launch of Xbox One
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MICROSOFT Corp has delayed the launch of its Xbox One game console on the Chinese mainland, which had been set for release tomorrow, but the world’s biggest software company said it would be released by the end of this year.
Microsoft did not give a reason for the delay in a statement yesterday.
The delay is the latest in a series of setbacks for Microsoft in China, where it is under investigation for suspected anti-trust violations related to the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office.
The Chinese mainland lifted a 2000 ban on gaming consoles earlier this year. Microsoft had reached a deal with Chinese Internet TV set-top box maker BesTV New Media Co to form a joint venture to manufacture the consoles in Shanghai’s free trade zone a year ago.
The Xbox One console will cost 3,699 yuan (US$602) without the Kinect motion detection system and 4,299 yuan with Kinect, Microsoft said in July.
China is the world’s third-biggest gaming market, where revenues grew by more than a third from 2012 to nearly US$14 billion last year.
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